Material Assignments to Recipes

Use

You use this function in master recipes for manufacturing products to determine which material is to be produced with the recipe.

This assignment enables you to use the master recipe for sales and operations planning, material requirements planning, for order creation as well as for product costing for this material.

Prerequisites

  • The material master of the material you want to produce has been created in the system.

  • The material type that has been assigned to the material master record is intended for assignment to recipes (see Customizing for Master Recipes ).

  • The unit of measure of the recipe charge quantity has been defined as the base unit of measure or alternative unit of measure in the material master record.

Features

In master recipes, you assign the material you want to produce at header level.

You can use material-recipe assignment to visually reproduce the following scenarios (see graphic below):

  • A recipe can be used to produce several materials (for example, red and green paint).

  • The material and the recipe can belong to different plants, that is, the planning plant (from the materials management point of view) must not be the same as the production plant.

  • Different recipes can be used to produce a material. The recipes can be assigned to different plants.

Co-Products: Special Features

When manufacturing co-products , that is, when you produce several materials in one process, you must decide on a header material. Which material you choose, depends on how production is usually initiated. The following scenarios are possible:

Production Initiated by

Material you Assign to the Recipe

Demand of a specific co-product

The required co-product

Availability of input materials and capacities

A process material

During material requirements planning, planned orders are automatically created for the material assigned in the recipe header. To convert other co-product requirements, you must create a process order manually.

Activities

You can assign the material you want to produce in a master recipe in one of the following ways:

  • Enter the material directly on the initial screen when you create the recipe (see Creating Master Recipes ).

  • Choose Material assignments in the recipe header and enter data as required.